TRANSFORMIT – your fabric of the future

Is your business ready to start its digital transformation journey? Would you like to explore some options to help you take your first steps?

Digital innovation is driving substantial transformation within businesses, making them more competitive, agile and disruptive. However, with new technology and increasingly complex IT environments comes a host of new business challenges. Many organisational infrastructures are either set up on premise or are hosted with disparate public cloud or colocation providers. The problem for many businesses is that their organisational applications and services are moving to multiple providers, with independent data, applications and systems.

We understand how hard it is for businesses to keep up with the ever-increasing pace of digital transformation, while managing day-to-day operational needs and keeping an eye on budgets. The most effective way to enable your digital transformation journey is by sharing knowledge and experience with other business leaders in your industry.

This is why we are hosting a ‘TRANSFORMIT – your fabric of the future’ event to enable you to do just that. The event will be a great opportunity for you to learn from your peers, network and hear from our Technology experts to help solve your digital transformation challenges – making your businesses more scalable, agile and mobile.

You will hear from Node4 customers and share experiences on how your business might benefit from cloud, collaboration and enhanced connectivity.

Our customers will show you if private, public or hybrid cloud is right for your business? Also how to scale your business operations to control costs and reduce risks, enabling you to drive innovation across your organisation.

Node4 as a managed services provider offers aggregated cloud capabilities; placing workloads onto the right cloud services, building true hybrid solutions, which include AWS and Azure alongside our own hybrid, cloud capability. Offering solutions for security; business continuity, backup, DR, and connectivity services is very important to this new hybrid model.

We can show you how to transform your business technology and achieve your objectives by combining applications, data and services.

You will also be able to demo and explore Node4’s new IT and technology developments.

‘Appy to Have your Vote’ – Your digital transformation Panel debate

TransformIT is all about you. We want you to choose what we discuss, to benefit you the most, such as:

Is Digital transformation essential to remain competitive and relevant?

Is your business culturally ready to embrace digital transformation?

Whose priority is it to drive digital transformation?

What are the obstacles in the way of innovation/digital transformation in your business?

On the day we’ll use a customised app which will allow you to vote for the questions you want our panel to discuss, in real-time. The power will be at your fingertips, to ensure the information you need is within reach.

Speakers:

Steve Denby – Head of Solution Sales, Node4The Data Revolution: How to digitally transform your business – 10:15 – 10:45This is an in-depth look at how businesses can prepare themselves for a digital transformation which leverages its many business benefits, whilst avoiding the obstacles most competitors will encounter. As more and more digital disruptors enter the market, now is the time to think about your business agility; this presentation can show you how.

Steve Nice – Chief Technologist, Node4How to protect your business within private, public or hybrid cloud – 10:45 – 11:15This is an unmissable presentation for anyone who recognises the importance of building adequate security into their cloud journey. We cover how utilising cloud (and the vast amount of benefits it brings) changes your threat landscape, in addition to key challenges such as ‘credential exposure’ and ‘information leakage’. We also, of course, talk about real and affordable solutions to avoid the threats as they emerge.

Mark Phelps – Collaboration Product Manager, Node4Collaboration Accomplishes More: Here’s how to get it done effectively – 12:45 – 13:15A presentation from Mark Phelps covering how collaboration is changing and which opportunities to seize for real ROI and positive workforce change. It covers crucial strategies for deploying tools you can make work for your business and how cloud and collaboration work in unison. It also gives you valuable insight from a specialist with 35 years experience in the industry, delivering measurable business benefits to a variety of different verticals.

Andrew Slater & Russ McKendrickData, DevOps and Disruption – 14:30 – 15:00In this interactive presentation we will be showcasing Node4’s capabilities around DevOps, Data and the Cloud. We’ll be exploring the challenges and opportunities for customers in moving to a more DevOps aligned approach, discussing Infrastructure as Code and attempting a live deployment of a new application across multiple cloud platforms.

Paul Bryce & Tom NeedsYour digital transformation – Panel Debate – 15:00 – 15:30TransformIT is all about you. We want you to choose what we discuss, to benefit you the most. On the day we’ll use a customised app which will allow you to vote for the questions you want our panel to discuss, in real-time. The power will be at your fingertips, to ensure the information you need is within reach.

Register for the event and we will keep you up to date with the programme as it evolves.